Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, April 14, 2025

How Much Do You Need To Walk To Offset The Harmful Effects Of Sitting?

 All these ideas on walking. Which one does your competent? doctor have you doing? Assuming, of course that s/he got you completely recovered! OH, they failed at their only job? Getting you fully recovered!

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How Much Do You Need To Walk To Offset The Harmful Effects Of Sitting?

Ever since the trendy "hot girl walk" workout blew up on social media a few years ago, walking workouts have been in the spotlight. Yet, while most people focus on the fact that this low-impact workout's weight loss benefits, there’s been a lot of chatter lately around how walking can have other big health perks, like helping manage your blood sugar.

Case in point: Last year, wellness influencer Mairlyn Smith went viral while talking up the “fart walks” she likes to take after dinner, pointing out that they help to regulate her blood sugar, too. But this isn’t just a made-for-social-media moment. New research supports the idea that walking can help manage blood sugar, potentially working to support better energy levels and easier weight management in the process. What's more, you don’t have to do much walking to reap the benefits, per this new study. Below, doctors break down the science behind this, plus how to make walking for blood sugar work for you. Clare A. Kelly, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University and an endocrinologist at University Hospitals; Mir Ali, MD, medical director of MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, CA; Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, chief of the division of endocrinology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolWhat did the study find? The study, which was published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, had 11 adults sit in an ergonomic chair for eight hours, getting up only for bathroom breaks and to do a recommended exercise “snack." The researchers looked at five different exercise "snacks" (short bursts of exercise): doing one minute of walking for every 30 minutes of sitting, one minute of walking after 60 minutes, five minutes for every 30 minutes of sitting, five minutes every 60 minutes, and no walking. Each participant had their blood pressure and blood sugar checked throughout the study.

The researchers discovered that while most exercise "snacks" helped with blood sugar, walking for five minutes for every 30 minutes of sitting was the best at lowering blood sugar. This schedule also helped reduce participants’ blood sugar spikes by a whopping 58 percent compared to those who sat all day.

How does walking improve blood sugar? There are a few things going on here. “Walking helps manage blood sugar through multiple mechanisms that largely center around the activation of skeletal muscle,” says Clare A. Kelly, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University and an endocrinologist at University Hospitals. “As our muscles are working to expand, contract, and strengthen, they take in glucose from our bloodstream as energy.” This ends up causing blood sugar levels to drop, she explains. Walking also helps to increase insulin sensitivity, which is how well your cells respond to insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels, says Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, chief of the division of endocrinology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Why is it important to manage blood sugar? Stable blood sugar levels are “crucial” for your overall health, according to Dr. Buettner. It helps maintain your energy levels, reduces cravings, and prevents long-term complications like nerve and kidney damage, he explains. Even your mood and memory can be impacted by your blood sugar. On the flip side, "poor blood sugar control can lead to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, weight gain, and increased risk of heart disease,” says Dr. Buettner. This particular study found that walking for five minutes for every 30 minutes of sitting was best for lowering blood sugar. It's also worth noting that people also reaped blood sugar-lowering benefits by walking for a minute every 30 minutes. But walking every 60 minutes, either for a minute or five minutes, didn’t seem to impact blood sugar levels.Running has a slight edge here because it can also burn more glucose and increase your cardiovascular health, according to Mir Ali, MD, medical director of MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, CA. “But both are great options,” he says.
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